Deals

Dennis, the publisher of Auto Express, evo and Carbuyer, has acquired social media brand Car Throttle.

Martin Sorrell’s new advertising vehicle S4 Capital (SFOR.L) has acquired an influencer marketing company, IMA, for 10 million euros, combining it with its content arm MediaMonks to bolster production output.

WPP today announces the sale of its minority shareholding in Chime Group Holdings Limited, the sports, entertainment and communications group, to the majority shareholder Providence for £54.4m and potential additional amounts based on the future value of Chime.

According to The Telegraph the business publisher Centaur has been forced to abandon the sale of its flagship title, The Lawyer, after a lengthy sale process failed to secure the price it sought.

(Reuters) – WPP is selling a 60% stake in Kantar to private equity firm Bain Capital, valuing the data analytics business at about $4 billion and giving the British owner of agencies including Ogilvy and Wunderman Thompson funds to cut debt and rebuild.

WPP today announces the sale of its minority shareholding in Chime Group Holdings Limited, the sports, entertainment and communications group, to the majority shareholder Providence for £54.4m and potential additional amounts based on the future value of Chime.

Condé Nast has dumped its £234m stake in Farfetch amid concerns over how the luxury marketplace is managed.

Easyfairs, the global exhibition organiser has acquired the Aesthetics Media portfolio which includes the Aesthetics Conference & Exhibition (ACE), the Aesthetics journal print and digital platform and the Aesthetics Awards.   

Thomson Reuters is expanding its audit offering with the acquisition of Confirmation, a provider of secure audit confirmation services, primarily for banking and financial services

Texas Monthly and Conde Nast’s W magazine each announced they are moving to new ownership today. W magazine will join Surface and Watch Journal under a newly formed media company dubbed Future Media Group. W will operate offices in Paris, Milan and New York with a future bureau to open in Los Angeles, under Future Media Group.

Deal positions AgriBriefing to continue building the leading business information, price reporting and data specialist for the global food and agribusiness industry with funding in place to support further M&A opportunities

DVV Media International Ltd (DVV) has today announced its intention to acquire the publishing activities and conferences in the aviation sector from Reed Business Information Ltd (RBI), part of the Risk & Business Analytics (R&BA) market segment of RELX.

Media 10 has sold Asia’s leading design sector events Design Shanghai and Design China Beijing to Clarion Events.

Deal will see CVC take on stake in Teneo acquired by BC Partners in 2015

Centaur Media Plc (“Centaur” or the “Group”), an international provider of business information and specialist consultancy, today announces that it completed the sale of its engineering portfolio, including The Engineer and Subcon, on 31 May 2019.

Amazon has further boosted its credentials as a real threat to Google and Facebook’s digital dominance with the acquisition of Sizmek’s ad server and Dynamic Creative Optimization (DCO) business.

Naylor Association Solutions has announced the acquisition of TechMedia, the leading producer of digital marketing conferences in the United States. TechMedia’s 20 Digital Summit conferences bolsters Naylor’s already-strong portfolio of custom member communications, event management, software-as-a-service (SaaS) and association management services.

The board of Bidco and the Independent Tarsus Directors are pleased to announce that they have reached agreement on the terms of a recommended cash acquisition by Bidco, a wholly-owned indirect subsidiary of the Charterhouse Funds, of the entire issued and to be issued ordinary share capital of Tarsus.

Informa (LSE: INF.L), the International Exhibitions, Events, Information Services and Scholarly Publishing Group, today announces further Progressive Portfolio Management (“PPM”) through an agreement with information services group, IHS Markit, that sees Informa’s Agribusiness Intelligence Portfolioexchanged for IHS Markit’s leading portfolio of TMT brands, further enhancing Informa Tech.

UDG Healthcare plc (“the Group”), a leading international healthcare services provider, is pleased to announce two acquisitions in its Ashfield Communications and Advisory business. Putnam Associates (“Putnam”), a US-based strategic management healthcare consultancy, is being acquired for a total consideration of up to $88.6 million, and Incisive Health, a UK-based healthcare policy and communications consultancy, is being acquired for a total consideration of up to £13.6 million ($17.7 million).